Final Semester Blog Post

These past 16 weeks have been really beneficial to me. I have learned a lot more than I have in my past English classes. I have become better aquatinted with AP caliber literature and I have learned that it is much different than commercial fiction. At first I didn't enjoy the short story unit, but as I reflect on the past semester I have realized that it was probably my favorite section. I have been frustrated with the blog posts some weeks because I don't know what to blog about and I feel that some of my posts have been meaningless in terms of content. I hope that for next semester the blog posts are not as frequent so that we have more to write about and more to reflect on. I have not been a big fan of the independent reading because the list of books weren't very interesting to me. I think that the next semester's outside reading assignment will be much better and more interesting. I have enjoyed the vocabulary quizzes because they are pretty simple and they help my grade. I'm eager to see what second semester has in store!

The Rover and Outside Reading

So this blog is from last Thursday. We had the play that day and I thought that the play was pretty interesting but the language was hard to understand. I thought that I must have been hard to learn the lines for that play because it would be really easy to jumble the words. The sword fighting was pretty cool too and their training was helpful because they didn't get hurt. I am extremely happy that we don't have the drama test because it is good to not have a lot of pressure before finals week. I am really excited for the book project for next semester and my topic. I chose spies and privacy as my topic because I think that it is really interesting and relevant to the Middle East and war. I am very excited for the second semester independent reading because I like that we have more freedom in book choices. I think that it will be more enjoyable and less of "school" reading and more of reading as a hobby.